Names We Call Home Autobiography on Racial Identity

Name: Names We Call Home Autobiography on Racial Identity
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ISBN: 9780415911627

ISBN-10: 0415911621

ISBN-13: 9780415911627

Edition: 1996

Authors: Becky Thompson, Sangeeta Tyagi

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This book includes autobiographical essays, interviews and poetry to highlight the historical, social and cultural influences that inform racial identity and make possible resistance to myriad forms of injustice.

Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/27/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction, Storytelling as Social Conscience: The Power of Autobiography



Word Problems




"When We Are Capable of Stopping, We Begin to See:" Being White, Seeing Whiteness




Mrs. Brent




Red and Black in White America: Discovering Cross-Border Identities and Other Subversive Activities




Writing in Search of a Home: Geography, Culture, and Language in the Creation of Racial Identity




Alice's Little Sister: The Self Concealed Behind the Self




Place and Kinship: A Native American's Identity Before and After Words




Locating Biafra: The Words We Wouldn't Say




Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia




Time Travelling and Border Crossing: Reflections on White Identity




A Hypenated Identity




Jews in the U.S.: The Rising Costs of Whiteness




Chattanooga Black Boy: Identity and Racism




My Dear Niece




Oxydol Poisoning




Writing Life




Birth of a Negotiation: A Love Letter




Tippin' the Furniture: An Interview with Angela Maria Giudice




The Breakdown of the Bicultural Mind




Eating Salt




Turning the Myths of Black Masculinity Inside/Out




"Wandering Between Two Worlds, One Dead, the Other Powerless to Be Born"




Playing the Devil's Advocate: Defending a Multiracial Identity in Fractured Community




Black Women and the Wilderness




Toward the Light




Waiting for a Taxi



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